87th Precinct was an American crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gena Rowlands, and Ron Harper, which aired on NBC on during the 1961-62 television season. The program was based on a number of detective novels by Evan Hunter (under the pen name Ed McBain) that featured Lansing as Detective Steve Carella, who worked in the fictional city of Isola, patterned on Manhattan, New York City. Rowlands played Carella-s deaf-mute wife, Teddy. Ron Harper played rookie detective Bert Kling.